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Date:      Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:50:54 -0400
From:      "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@smith.ansci.iastate.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: partially solved: Desparate: recovering file system after linux probed it. 
Message-ID:  <m114uL8-003Nv9C@smith.ansci.iastate.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jul 1999 16:14:41 EDT." <m114sq2-003Nv9C@smith.ansci.iastate.edu> 

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hmm, this time I managed to relabel the partitions in disklabel,
installed the dictionary files to force it to do something, and then
was able to fsck and mount the old /home partition.  I backed up and
(i think) safely stored my dissertation on another machine.

I've been through several boots from the diskettes now (this is an
area where linux has freebsd beat hands down, particularly the
inability to stop a ftp install without rebooting if an ip was
wrong). 

I've also reinstalled the /bin distribution.  I'm about to reboot one
more time, but after the last round, it installed the boot loader,
offers a default choice, and hangs.  if I hit an fkey, that becomes
the default for the next boot, but it never goes past this.

I've found that I can get it to start booting from the hard drive when
given that information when booting from fixit.flp, but it panics
after attempting to mount wd0s3c3 --isn't that one too many letters?
particularly the last "3" ?


rick


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